"Peaceful Village" from Crystalis on the Nintendo Entertainment System (1990), Game Boy Color (2000), & Switch (2018)
Composer: Yoko Osaka
Album: No Official Release
Developer: SNK
I will most likely write about Crystalis in a week or two, but for right now, I wanted to use this song, which is the first town music you hear after your purple haired character wakes up from a futuristic chamber and walks out of a cave into the Town of Leaf. So early in the game, you do not spend a whole lot of time in the Town of Leaf, or at least I did not as I was out in the field killing monsters in order to gain XP and gold to level up and buy better equipment. "Peaceful Village" however, is very stereotypical RPG town music in that I do in fact find it peaceful. It is also the first village that you come across and so then it is in essence, home. And this is some good "home" music at that.
The other main reason I am sharing music from this 28 year old action RPG is because it was recently released on the Nintendo Switch as part of "SNK 40th Anniversary" collection of console and arcade games. If you were not able to play the original NES game, you might have played the faulty Game Boy Color game, but I would highly recommend the Switch port. And for reasons that will become clearer in a few weeks, "Peaceful Village" as a song is indeed just like coming home.
~JWfW/JDub/Jaconian
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